Auto generated password retrieval from VCF Installer 9.1 appliance

Products

• VMware Cloud Foundation

Issue/Introduction

Retrieve auto generated passwords via CLI if the VCF Installer UI is no longer accessible after a VCF 9.1 deployment.

Environment

VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1

Resolution

• User interface extraction
  
  
  1. Navigate to the interface URL:
     
     https:///vcf-installer-ui/portal/getting-started


  2. Under Deploy > View Details 
  3. Then grab the passwords from the JSON on the installer page. 
     
     
• Use curl commands to pull the passwords: 
  
  
  1. SSH into the VCF Installer which should now be the SDDC Manager Appliance with the vcf user and su to root. 
  2. Run the following commands to obtain the token:
     
     TOKEN=$(curl -k -X POST https://localhost/v1/tokens -H "Content-Type:application/json" -d '{"username": "admin@local","password": ""}' | jq -r '.accessToken')


  3. Retrieve the ID of the latest deployment : 
     
     curl -k -X GET "https://localhost/v1/sddcs/latest" -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" | jq
     
     
  4. Grab the VCF Operations deployment JSON which contains the passwords: 
     
     curl -k -X GET "https://localhost/v1/sddcs/<ID from previous command>/spec" -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" | jq | less